Date Night

06 December 2023, 03:35 PM

Jack Frost

Date Night

Martha and I have a regular Date Night every Wednesday. It usually involves drinks and dinner at a local seafood restaurant. This doesn’t stop us from other spontaneous nights out, such as they may be, be the regularity of it is nice. We look forward to it and may bring along an adult kid or four who happen to be visiting.

Any other couples do anything similar.

J

06 December 2023, 03:38 PM

Nina

We used to do date nights when the kids were small, but once they were able to fend for themselves at night the regularly scheduled portion went by the wayside. A big reason for this was that we no longer needed to schedule a babysitter.

Now we're pretty spontaneous, but we do find that going out to a "nice" restaurant once every month or six weeks is very pleasant. Otherwise we will often go to our regular neighborhood casual joint(s).

06 December 2023, 03:41 PM

Jack Frost

Our regular seafood restaurant is definitely “nice.”

And if it wasn’t regularly scheduled it would likely be closer to once a month than every week.

06 December 2023, 04:58 PM

dolmansaxlil

We go to our neighbourhood casual joint once a week. We try to do a nice dinner out every four weeks or so, but we go more often in the spring/summer and less often in the fall/winter.

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06 December 2023, 06:08 PM

Mikhailoh

No regular date night, but we probably eat out once night a week plus maybe a couple lunches or breakfasts.

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06 December 2023, 07:10 PM

Piano*Dad

Yes, and ours is .... drum roll please, Wednesday night!

07 December 2023, 03:01 PM

piqué

Every night we head down to the barn together and do chores. Mr Pique picks up the manure and stuffs hay nets. I groom, pick/trim hooves, make beds out of shavings, clean the stock tank, blanket, and mix up their supplements/meds and feed.

Then we go back in the house, light a fire in the fireplace, and read our respective books before it.

We've been on this little farm for over six years now. Working together to maintain and improve it has done more for our sense of partnership than any date we've ever had.

07 December 2023, 03:20 PM

RealPlayer

Recently we are both home a lot...my wife is retired and I am in a momentary lull with music work. Usually I'm cooking, but for an alternative, she likes to order in, which is usually OK with me, but I also like to go out to eat. I feel it gets us out of our own heads and dealing with other people, which is a good thing. And sometimes if I'm out shopping or whatever, I'll stop someplace for lunch. I recently discovered a terrific Chinese place this way.

And, heck, Manhattan is a free boat ride just across the water. Makes sense to explore there!

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07 December 2023, 08:17 PM

Doug

we need to find a place that’s more welcoming to diversity. Some places act like they’ve never served a couple where one partner is inflatable.

07 December 2023, 08:31 PM

wtg

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08 December 2023, 11:44 AM

AdagioM

quote:
Originally posted by Doug:
we need to find a place that’s more welcoming to diversity. Some places act like they’ve never served a couple where one partner is inflatable.

12 December 2023, 02:05 PM

Jack Frost

We also frequently have lunch together in the kitchen, whil watching Stephen Colbert and Seth Myers monologues from night before.

12 December 2023, 05:24 PM

CHAS

Doug,
What do you do when you date has no appetite?
That would seem to be deflating.

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12 December 2023, 06:57 PM

Steve Miller

quote:
Originally posted by Doug:
we need to find a place that’s more welcoming to diversity. Some places act like they’ve never served a couple where one partner is inflatable.